MOLECULAR ANATOMIC IMAGING. PET/CT, PET/MR AND SPECT CT

Practical and clinically oriented, the third edition of Clinical Molecular Anatomic Imaging focuses on PET/CT, SPECT/CT, and PET/MR examinations – precisely the information you need to know, without lengthy physics discussions. Ideal for clinical hybrid imaging users, it fully integrates all applications, allowing you to easily compare modalities and decide whether to use PET/CT, PET/MR, or SPECT/CT to solve a clinical dilemma. More than 1,600 high-quality illustrations document the use of integrated imaging and provide superb visual references for interpreting integrated imaging studies.

Key Features:
- Covers established and emerging indications for the three most versatile and powerful hybrid molecular anatomic imaging modalities currently in clinical use: PET/CT, SPECT/CT and PET/MR.
- Follows a practical, disease-based structure.
- The only available book that incorporates the emerging field of PET/MR in a systematic manner.
- More than 1,600 superb illustrations document the use of integrated imaging.
- A new section covers workflow and normal scans with various clinical tracers.
- Sharp focus on clinical applications, omitting technological and radiopharmaceutical details.
- Each chapter is self-contained and can be consulted for quick reference on its own.
- World-renowned clinician-scientist Gustav von Schulthess provides editorial leadership and a strong understanding of both nuclear medicine imaging and cross-sectional imaging.

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:
- Complete content with enhanced navigation
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- Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
- Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
- Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use.

About the Author(s)
Gustav K. von Schulthess MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Professor and Director of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Contents
PART I BASIC ASPECTS OF HYBRID IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 1. Radiation sources for emission scanning: positron and gamma emission
Chapter 2 PET Scanning: principles and technologic options
Chapter 3 SPECT Scanning: principles and technologic options
Chapter 4 CT scanning: principles relevant to hybrid imaging with PET/CT and SPECT/CT
Chapter 5 MR scanning: principles relevant to hybrid imaging
Chapter 6 Attenuation correction methods for emission scanning
Chapter 7, Options in image reconstruction for hybrid imaging,
Chapter 8, Image coregistration and co-registered image rendering.
Chapter 9, Quantifying PET and SPECT, Cyrill Burger.
Chapter 10, Standardizing PET and SPECT.
Chapter 11, Minimizing radiation dose in hybrid imaging.
Chapter 12, A primer in compartment modelling.

PART II, RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
Chapter 13, Clinical PET-radiopharmaceuticals based on F-18.
Chapter 14, Clinical PET-radiopharmaceuticals based on cyclotron based positron emitters other than F-18.
Chapter 15, Clinical PET-Radiopharmaceuticals produced by generators.
Chapter 16, Clinical SPECT-radiopharmaceuticals.

PART III, CLINICAL HYBRID IMAGING OF THE BRAIN.
Chapter 17, Protocols and data analysis, normal scans and pitfalls: brain perfusion.
Chapter 18, Cerebrovascular disease.
Chapter 19, Brain tumors: astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas and glioblastomas.
Chapter 20, Brain tumors: other primary brain tumors, metastases and radiation necrosis.
Chapter 21, CNS infection.
Chapter 22, Epilepsy.
Chapter 23, Protocols, normals and pitfalls: neurodegenerative disease.
Chapter 24, Dementia.
Chapter 25, Movement disorders.
Chapter 26, Pediatric hybrid imaging of the brain.

PART IV, CLINICAL PET AND INTEGRATED MODALITY IMAGING OF THE HEART.
Chapter 27, Protocols and data analysis normal scans and pitfalls: PET and SPECT.
Chapter 28, Coronary artery disease: perfusion multimodality imaging.
Chapter 29, Coronary artery disease: viability multimodality imaging.
Chapter 30, Non-coronary cardiac disease: multimodality imaging.

PART V, CLINICAL HYBRID IMAGING OF BODY NEOPLASMS,PROTOCOLS, NORMAL FINDINGS , ARTIFACTS AND PITFALLS.
Introductory remarks, Editor
Chapter 31, Artifacts in hybrid extended region scans.
Chapter 32, FDG PET imaging: protocols, normal scans and pitfalls.
Chapter 33, Prostate cancer PET imaging: protocols, normal findings, artifacts and pitfalls.
Chapter 34, Somatostatin receptor SPECT and PET imaging: protocols, normal findings, artifacts and pitfalls.
Chapter 35, Bone and bone marrow SPECT and PET imaging: protocols, normal findings, artifacts and pitfalls.
Chapter 36, Iodine and Pertechnetate SPECT and PET imaging: protocols, normal findings, artifacts and pitfalls.
Chapter 37, Sentinel node SPECT imaging for tumor staging: protocols, normal findings, artifacts and pitfalls.
HEAD AND NECK TUMORS.
Chapter 38, Head and neck cancer.
Chapter 39, Tumors with an unknown primary.
Chapter 40, Thyroid carcinoma.
TUMORS OF THE THORACIC CAVITY.
Chapter 41, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Chapter 42, Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Chapter 43, Mesothelioma.
Chapter 44, Mediastinal tumors.
TUMORS OF THE GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT.
Chapter 45, Esophageal, gastroesophageal and gastric cancers.
Chapter 46, Neoplasms of the liver and pancreas.
Chapter 47, GIST tumors.
Chapter 48, Neuroendocrine tumors.
Chapter 49, Colorectal and anal carcinoma.
BREAST CANCER AND GENITO-URINARY TUMORS,
Chapter 50, Breast cancer.
Chapter 51, Renal tumors and bladder cancer.
Chapter 52, Female genital tract tumors.
Chapter 53, Testicular Cancer.
Chapter 54, Prostate Cancer.
TUMORS OF BONE, JOINTS, MUSCLES, SKIN AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE,
Chapter 55, Bone tumors.
Chapter 56, Bone metastases.
Chapter 57, Soft tissue tumors.
Chapter 58, Melanoma.
TUMORS OF THE LYMPHATIC AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEMS.
Chapter 59, Lymphoma.
Chapter 60, Multiple Myeloma.
PET- AND SPECT/CT IN RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING.
Chapter 61, Radiation therapy planning.

PART VI, CLINICAL HYBRID IMAGING OF NON-NEOPLASTIC DISEASE OF THE BODY.
Chapter 62, Physiological basis of inflammation imaging.
Chapter 63, Soft tissue inflammation including vessels and grafts.
Chapter 64, Muskuloskeletal infections.
Chapter 65, Infections in patients with metallic implants.
Chapter 66, Rheumatological Disease.
Chapter 67, Trauma.
Chapter 68, Benign Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease.

PART VII, CLINICAL HYBRID IMAGING IN PEDIATRICS.
Chapter 69, Special considerations in pediatric hybrid imaging.
Chapter 70, Pediatric body oncology hybrid imaging.
Chapter 71, Inflammation and other non-neoplastic pediatric disease.